Frozen Planet II 4K UHD

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Finally, in high summer, we see the effects of climate change on the tundra itself as huge scars in the landscape open up as the frozen land thaws for the very first time. These changes are impacting the life of caribou, one of the icons of the North. Key Species and Stories The behaviour filmed by Frozen Planet II is so special a scientific publication is underway based on our BBC footage. Caribou, known as reindeer in Northern Europe, are the most widespread terrestrial herbivores in the Arctic and they can live in herds 200,000 strong. Caribou undertake one of the longest land migrations of any mammal, migrating between their winter feeding and summer calving grounds. Over the past two decades overall abundance of reindeer and caribou has declined 56 percent, from a total estimated population of 4.7 million individuals to about 2.1 million individuals. The longest continuous time any team member spent on location was three months. The longest journey to location took three weeks, and the longest quarantine period (due to COVID) was 42days.

The mountains of Japan are the snowiest place on Earth, providing hostile conditions for a lone male Japanese macaque cast away from his troop. His only chance of survival comes with finding another male whose embrace will provide him with life-saving warmth. But in the frozen peaks, the deadliest force is an avalanche whose full destructive power is captured for the first time using high-speed camera racer drones. Then we journey to the mountains in Central Asia, home to the Himalaya, the biggest frozen world away from the poles. The Karakoram range is in the far west of the Himalaya and has the highest concentration of snow and ice anywhere outside the poles. We've done an aerial shoot there where we go big on the huge mountain glaciers.I hope people will feel that, while this is a wonderful celebration and an opportunity to be transported to these magical worlds, at the same time there is a fierce contemporary relevance to these stories. BBC Studios partners with FRIDAY! for the BBC Planet franchise". www.bbc.com . Retrieved 1 September 2022. There’s humour here, in the form of walruses rolling their way into the water to cool down, but a serious message about rising summer temperatur a b "Penguins march their way to the Royal Albert Hall ahead of Frozen Planet II". www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 1 September 2022.

The last film is a very powerful watch. I think that anybody who knows anything about these regions will probably say the situation is bleak in many ways. But what we've tried to set up from the beginning is that these people are striving to turn things around before it's too late. And in the final messages of this series we are trying to inject a sense of hope. We've got scientists talking about the fact that at our fingertips we do have the technology to be using renewables, to be transforming society, and that there is the will. The will is greater now than ever. What's so powerful is that it comes from the scientists themselves. These are people who literally, day by day, see the ice disappearing but they still have hope that we can do something about this.To film the Pallas’s cat the production team had to sit completely stationary in wooden hides for up to eight hours a day. It was so cold their sandwiches froze solid.